What Ted Rall tells us

Ted Rall is a cartoonist, the sort that you’ll find in any ‘”independent” newspaper in big cities like fellow cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. He’s about as hard left as you can get, and became so offensive during the Bush administration that even left-leaning newspapers stopped carrying him. Recently, he wrote about how even allies are refusing to run some of his cartoons.

I can’t prove it in every case. (That’s how blackballing works.) The Nation and Mother Jones and Harper’s, liberal magazines that gave me freelance work under Clinton and Bush, now ignore my queries. Even when I offered them first-person, unembedded war reporting from Afghanistan. Hey, maybe they’re too busy to answer email or voicemail. You never know.

If you want a clue about how leftist Ted Rall is, he claims that Obama’s cabinet contained no liberals. This is a cabinet which includes some of the most hard left people in the country, even Maoists like Anita Dunn and advisers such as admitted communist Van Jones. Yet even newspapers as hard left a Mother Jones and The Nation are turning their backs on Rall. Why?